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The UN General Assembly and various UN courts have ruled that the UK had no sovereignty over the Chagos Islands in the first place. https://www.bbc.com/news/wo
by jplrssn 2y ago
The UN General Assembly and various UN courts have ruled that the UK had no sovereignty over the Chagos Islands in the first place.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-55848126 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-55848126
- matthewmorgan 2y agoIrrelevant.
- Maxatar 2y agoMaybe to you, but not to the UK government.
- SllX 2y agoThe UK has a permanent seat on the UNSC including the ultimate single-member veto and on the sliding scale of fiction to non-fiction, international law is a lot closer to the fictional end. The UK choosing to transfer sovereignty to another country is not in-line with a ruling that says they don’t have sovereignty. They’ve chosen to be done with this controversy.
- BurningFrog 2y agoThe UN General Assembly is little more than an opinion poll, legally speaking.
- 10xalphadev 2y agoThe UN is relevant how? Anyway, UK did the right thing, though. Now get rid of that US hegemony-supporting base.
- Maken 2y agoThe base stays in and the people stays out. It's little more than a symbolic gesture.